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COMBINATION LOCK.

No. 349,168 Patented Sept. 14, 1886.

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UNITED STATES JOHN H. MORRIS AND THOMAS D.

PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS, OF SEWARD, NEBRASKA.

COMBINATION-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,168, datedSeptember 14, 1886.

Apnlication filed April 15; 1886. Serial No. 198,897. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J oHN H. MORRIS and THOMAS D. MORRIS, of Seward, inthe county of Seward and State of Nebraska, have invented a new anduseful Improvementin Oombination-Locks, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a front view of a cabinet with our improved lock attached.Fig. 2 is a per- Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 9 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4is a detached view of the bod y or main plate of the lock.

Our present invention relates to a class of locks which depend, upon acombination of figures or letters in order to be released or 1111fastened; and it consists in the combination and arrangement of deviceshereinafter described and claimed.

To enable others skilled in the art to make.

and use our invention, we will proceed to describe the exact manner inwhich we have carried it out.

In the drawings, A represents a cabinet with our improved lock attachedthereto. B rep: resents the body or main plate of the lock, which is letinto the wood flush with the face of the door,where it is secured inposition by the four arms I), cast integral with the plate, as shown inFigs. 2 and 4. On the inner side of this mainplate are castintegraltherewith the hollow lugs or hubs (J G, through which pass the spindlesa a, for operating the locking plates D D. These hubs furnish bearingsfor the spindles, while at the'san'ie time they throw the lockingpl'ates far enough from the main plate to allow the catches E E (seedotted lines, Fig. l) to pass freely between the main plate and the cogsd on the inner side of the locking-plates. The front face of the mainplate is countersunk, as shown at e in Fig. 3, to receive the dials E E,and hold them flush with the face of the plate. This plate can beornamented to any desired extent, and may be made very attractive andhandsome.

The object of the cogs on the inner surface of the locking-plates is todefeat any effort to discover the combination by gently moving theplates around to detect the slots (1, through which the catches E pass.

' Having thus described our invention, what we claim'as new, and desireto secure by Letb ters Patent, is-

In a combination-lock, the body or main plate B, provided with the armsI) and elongated hollow hubs C 0, cast integral therewith, incombination with the spindles a a, lockingplates D D, and dials E E, allconstructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN H. MORRIS. THOMAS D. MORRIS. Witnesses as to S gnature of John H.Morris:

R. P. ANDERSON, GEO. H. TERWILLIGER. Witnesses as to signature of Thos.D. Morrls:

PHILIP TISK, O. J. BRoWN.

